The Man with the Golden Gun

I had my 23rd birthday last Thursday... it was fantabular! I spent most of the morning with my dad who snuck off work to come see me. We had a pretty good time. Then Brian came over and we spent the evening together. Luckily, Brian was going to give me my birthday present and take me out Friday... so I was spoiled for two days.

I took Thursday and Friday off work, so I had ample time to not do anything. It felt great.

Brian told me that we were going out to Ipanema Grill (this really nice and expensive Brazilian restaurant). I took time and got all prettied up for him. Brian came over after work and gave me my birthday present. He gave me this really cute earing and necklace set (the earings don't irritate my earlobes, which is rare!) and he gave me Brain Age 2 for my DS. It's a really, really fun game. I'm trying to get my brain age lower... I initially got a 60. I think part of it was being unfamiliar with the software and the game.

So, back to Ipanema. We drove to Seattle and Brian got us parking in a garage. We ended up not being stuck in traffic for as long as we had anticipated, so we walked down Pike's Street and I got a latte at Tully's. Then we headed back to the restaurant. Brian made reservations (which is a very sexy thing to do) and we got to sit down right away. I had a Strawberry Lemonade and Brian had passion fruit juice (or something exotic). The way the restaurant works is you get to get your salad and everything buffett style. You can go and get as much as you want, but as soon as you're ready, you flip over a card on your table and they bring meat by on a skewer and you can say if you want it or not. They have all sorts of meats there. They had turkey wrapped in bacon, chicken, tons of different steak cuts, cheese steak, grilled pineapple, oooh, and they had shrimp and bison. We ate till we were stuffed. Then we had some more... We finished up the night with dessert. They had really good and rich tasty dessert balls.

It was a really wonderful night and I feel really lucky to have a great boyfriend.

Oh, and Brian finally moved in! Yay!